Einsatzgruppe H

  • EG H
Identifier
758
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

In 1941-06, before the attack on the Soviet Union, Einsatzgruppe H was stationed in Slovakia.

SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind the lines and murdered political opposition. The Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1.25-2 million Jews and tens of thousands of Soviet citizens and Soviet POWs.

Places

  • Active in Slovakia.

Sources

  • Die Gestapo : Herrschaft und Terror im Dritten Reich / C. Dams and M. Stolle. - München, 2008. - p. 135